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  NEW METRONOMY COLLECTION + PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED REMIX

  February 3, 2012

  Mercury Prize nominated indie-electro-pop quartet, Metronomy, are set to release The English Riviera Unreleased Remixes, via Big Beat Records and Because Music, on March 6th.  As the title would suggest, the collection features thirteen reworkings of tracks from the group’s critically acclaimed third album, The English Riviera.  The English Riviera, which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide, was proclaimed by NYLON Magazine the 2nd best album of 2011 calling it a “sexy and sultry…modest masterpiece.”  In addition to two new reworks of the single ‘The Look’ (which Huffington Post ranked among their top songs

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  NEW MUSIC FROM SOUTHERN NOISE-POP BAND: MOONLIGHT BRIDE

  February 3, 2012

  If you’re into bands like The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, My Bloody Valentine and Los Campesinos!, check out Chattanooga based noise-pop Moonlight Bride and their new EP Twin Lakes (out feb 28th). 
   Featuring the pop-gaze anthem “Lemonade,” Twin Lakes finds Moonlight Bride at their best, weaving brooding guitars with driving melodies and poignant vocals that drip with raw emotion.  The five song EP, self-produced and mixed by John Goodmanson (Death Cab For Cutie, Los Campesinos!), flows seamlessly in a dream-like procession through peaks and

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  NEW MUSIC FROM THE BAND IN HEAVEN: SLUDGY DREAMS

  February 3, 2012

  New music from South Florida noise duo – The Band in Heaven is available on 7″ featuring the track “Sludgy Dreams” on HoZac Records
  Watch the original Alice Cohen created video for “Sludgy Dreams” above or the alternate version – “Sludgy Dreams/Sleazy Dreams” HERE.

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  NEW MUSIC FROM SOFT LIGHTING: SLOW MOTION SILHOUETTES

  February 2, 2012

  Soft Lighting is the solo work of Bryan Cox, Kansas City based musician/producer. Equipped with a Juno60 and a bedroom studio, Cox makes his own brand of light headed pop music influenced by Italo Disco, 80s film soundtracks and contemporary Chillwave artists.
  Soft Lighting – Slow Motion Silhouettes (3/1/2012)

  Soft Lighting on Facebook

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  STREAM SHADES: CLEAR MOTIONS

  January 31, 2012

  The four-piece band from Boise, Idaho known to the universe as Shades bring an eclectic mix of woozy melodic synths, crunched drums, smooth vocals and sweet vibes. “Clear Motions” will be released in January. We’re very excited to share a fantastic collection of songs that flow brilliantly into each other as warm waves grab the soul with emotion. Perfect for fans of Small Black, Washed Out, and love Shoegaze Electronica.
  Shades on Facebook
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  STREAM A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: ONWARDS TO THE WALL

  January 31, 2012

  Onwards To The Wall, the new EP from A Place To Bury Strangers, is available for streaming right now - a week in advance of release date – on Hype Machine. The disc has 5 brand new face-melting tracks and will officially be released on Dead Oceans next week on February 7. The  Boston Phoenix calls it “indebted to the pleasures of pressure…a suicide tease,” and KEXP  recently made “So Far Away” their Song of the Day.

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  NEW VIDEO FROM THE WAR ON DRUGS: BROTHERS

  January 30, 2012

  The War On Drugs are excited to share the brand new video for the dylan-esc track “Brothers,” one of the many highlights off their stellar Slave Ambient. Following the more kaleidoscopic videos for “Baby Missiles” and “Come to the City,” the “Brothers” video, definitely takes a different approach with its bleak western narrative. Here’s what the director team of Brewer, a pair of brothers (Ben and Alex), had to say about the video:
  “We kept picturing it as the soundtrack to a dark western like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid or Unforgiven.

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  NEW MUSIC FROM HUSBAND: SLOW MOTION

  January 26, 2012

  Husband is Gianlorenzo (Buzz Aldrin) and Chiara from Bologna.  Offsetting the driving Italo-pop dronetronica rhythms of their track “Slow Motion” is this strangely uneasy video filmed and edited by Ailien Reyes, which features the duo’s shared love of volcanoes.

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  RICK RUBIN REMIXES JUSTICE: ON ‘N’ ON

  January 26, 2012

  Fader have just posted Rick Rubin’s remix of “On’n’On” by Justice. It’s from the EP for the song they have dropping on Monday. Check below for links and a hilarious note from Justice’s manager/label head Busy P:
  Stream: Justice, “On’n’on (Rick Rubin Remix)”

  ONCE UPON A TIME RICK RUBIN
  It all started in 1989, I visited my brother in Canada, where he was living with my dad. We went record shopping, probably one of the first time I was buying my own records, my first real

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  STREAM AU PALAIS: TENDER MERCY

  January 24, 2012

  Stream the Tender Mercy EP from Toronto bred- now London based Au Palais.  On Tender Mercy, Brother and sister duo Elise and David Commathe have crafted a calm and cool collection of beat heavy, goth-pop tracks, shimmering with soaring vocals and elegant beauty.

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  SPACES: NOTHING EXISTS BUT ATOMS AND THE VOID

  January 24, 2012

  Celestial themes such as violent star systems and lunar tranquility set the groundwork for ”Nothing Exists but Atoms and the Void”, the sophomore release from Brooklyn-based band, Spaces. Band members, Duke Ahrens and Franco Colon, continued with an unconventional approach to songwriting by building a recording studio in a decommissioned ferryboat. The pair drew inspiration from their surroundings to create music that reflects the beauty and wonders of the Universe. This ambitious album encompasses a sonic landscape from intense rhythmic movements to introspective

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  NEW MUSIC FROM BUCKLEY WARD: SO PRETEND

  January 24, 2012

  ‘Into the Darkening Blue’ is the second release from Australian indie kids Buckley Ward off their upcoming album So Pretend. The tracks  nonchalantly precise harmonies and unabashed melodies swell in testament to Buckley Ward’s versatility and previously unsuspected dance-ability. Jimmy Allen’s plaintive vocals are a come-hither wink over a bed of guitar and keyboards – a promise of guiltless goodtimes to get your heart racing. ‘Into The Darkening Blue’ comes complete with a chiller thriller video clip with a killer twist.
  Into

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